Wheeled earth-scraper



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W. HASLUP. WHEELED EARTH SORAPER.

No. 541,047. Patented June 11,1895.

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No.- 541,047. Patented June 11, 1895.

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WILLIAM HASLUP, OF SIDNEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J. H. DOEHRING, OF WAPAKONETA, OHIO.

WHEELED EARTH-SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent'No. 541,047, dat d June 11, 1895.

Application filed December 15, 1894:. Serial No. 531,940. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: nection with the accompanying drawings, and

.Be itknown that I, WVILLIAM HASLUP, a citithen pointed out in the claims.

zen of the United States, residing at Sidney, Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective in the county of Shelby and State of Ohio, view of a wheeled scraper constructed in achave invented certain new and useful Imcordance with my invention, with the near provements in \Vheeled Earth Scrapers, of wheel removed, the bowl being shown in the which the following is a specification, referelevated position. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ence being had therein to the accompanying with the near wheel removed, showing the drawings. bowl and other parts in position for loading.

to My invention, which relates to wheeled Fig. 3 isa similar view of the scraper, showearth-scrapers, has for one of its objectsto ing it in a position to dump the load. Fig. 4 provide improved means for preventing the is a plan view illustrating my invention rescraperbowl from tipping forward in the actlating to the draft-bars. of loading, the peculiarity of this improve- In the drawings, A is an arched axle; B, the

I5 ment residing in a pivoted catch on the bowl wheels mountedon the axle; C, thelever-bars adapted to engage with a hook fixed on the rigidly secured to the axle; D, the lever rigdraft-bar, the pivotal relation of the catch to idly fixed to said bars; E, the bowl; F, standthe hook being such as to permit a variable ards, to whose upper ends the lever-bars are movement of the former to enable the front of pivoted, said standards being rigidly secured 20 the bowl to take deeper in the plowed ground, at their lower ends to the bowl; G, the handles as is desirable while the bowl is passing over secured to the bowl; H, a latch, pivoted behard clods, stones, 85c. tween the lever-bars and adapted'to engage Heretofore, as far as I am aware, the hook with any suitable projection, as h, on the rear and the catch for preventing tipping of the end of the bowl; and I ahook-rod, pivoted to 25 bowl have always been so constructed and one of the lever-bars and adapted to engage arranged as to permit of no variation of the with the strap z'secured on the tongue. As point of connection when in operative relaall these parts are of common construction no tion to each other, and therefore when the specific description thereof is necessary. I bowl was lowered so as to bring the hook and The first feature of novelty in my inven- 0 catch together it was incapable of further detion consists of the mechanism employed by pression. me for preventing the tipping of the bowl in Another object of my invention is to imthe act of loading. which mechanism I will prove the construction of the connections benow describe with relation to one side of the tween the tongue and the bowl, whereby the scraper only, it being understood that such 35 torsional strain usually exerted on the draft mechanism is duplicated on the other side.

bars at points between the bowl and tongue J is an angular catch pivoted to one side of Y is materially lessened, such strain being at its thebowl, it being held thereto by a metallic maximum when the line of direction of the strapj, which, when the bowl is elevated, rests moving scraper is changed during the operaunder the draft-bar, as seen in Fig. 1, and pre- 40 tion of loading. To change the direction of vents backward tipping of the bowl. 9o movement of the scraper while loading sub- K is a bar rigidly bolted at one end to the jects the forward .ends of the draft-bars to draft-bar, and having a hook it formed on its immense strain, and often results in bending free end, the face of this hook being formed or twisting them and sometimes in wrenching substantially straight, as seen in the different 45 them from their fastenings to the tongue. By views.

my invention I have reduced the strain on Lis alink pivotally connecting catchJ with these parts to the minimum, transferring the the forward end of one of the lever-bars O. greater portion of it to parts least affected The catch J has such pivotal relation to the thereby. I hook lo as to be slightly out of contact with 5c The invention will first be described in conthe hook when the bowl is elevated, as shown I00 in Fig. 1, and to come into contact with it below the bend of the hook when the bowl is lowered for loading, as seen in full lines in Fig. 2. This latter will be the ordinary relation of the two parts; but it sometimes becomes necessary to still further depress the bowl, as when the latter is passing over hard clods, which could not be done if there were but a single point of contact between the catch and hook. Now when is desired to give this additional depression to the bowl the operator can do so by turning the axle A slightly farther forward, when the parts will assume the positions indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, wherein it will be seen that catch .T has moved up into the bend of hook 7a, in which position, as well as in the position last above described, it and the hook serve to prevent the bowl from tipping forward, and also to sume a portion of the draft-strain.

The next feature of my invention pertains to strengthening the draft-bars M, each of which latter is bolted at its forward end to the tongue N and is pivoted at its rear end on a bolt on, passed through standard F and through one side of the how], an ordinary hold back strap 0, passed over the bolt an outside of the draft-bar and secured to the bowl, to counteract strain on the bolt, being employed.

My improvement in respect to the draftbars consists primarily in the employment of a transverse brace P, joining said bars-at the angle formed in connectingthem to the tongue, this brace being continuous from one bar to the other, bolted to each, and held to the rear end of the tongue by a metal strap 12, looped over the brace and secured to the upper and lower sides of the tongue.

I am aware that heretofore the rear end of the tongue has been braced by separate braces extending from each draft-bar to the sides of the tongue and secured thereto; but such is not my construction nor my purpose, for I have in View the strengthening of the draftbars, and this is done by the employment of a single brace extending from one draft-bar to the other and joining them at the angle or bend made to carry them inward to the tongue, the central portion of the brace abutting against the rear end of the tongue and being secured thereto by the strap 19 aforesaid.

By the employment of the brace P above described I may also, if desired, construct the draft-bars of much lighter material than usual,and thisI am enabled to do by running a diagonal brace Q from the brace P, as at 1, to the draft-bar at 2, which is at or near the front end of the bowl, and extending said diagonal brace rearward parallel with the bar throughout its length, and then running braces R from the tongue to the brace P, each of the braces Q and R being secured to the brace P by the same bolt.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wheeled scraper, a bar rigidly secured to the draft-bar and having a hook formed on its free end, a catch pivoted to the bowl, and a link pivotally connecting the catch with the forward end of the lever-bar, the whole being so arranged that the catch will engage with the hook when the bowl is lowered to the loading position.

2. In a wheeled scraper, a bar rigidly secured to the draft-bar and having a hook formed on its free end, said hook having a substantially straight face, a catch pivoted to the bowl, and a link pivotally connecting the catch with the forward end of the lever-bar, the whole being so arranged that the catch will engage with the hook at variable points and be capable of swinging clearof the hook.

In a wheeled scraper, the combination, with the tongue, of draft-bars secured at one end to the tongue, a transverse brace connecting the draft-bars at the angles formed in bending the latter inward to the tongue, a strap passed over said brace for securing it to the end of the tongue, diagonal braces exten dingfrom the transverse brace to the draftbars at a point slightly forward of the bowl and extending thence rearward parallel with said bars throughout theirlength, and braces extending from the tongue to the transverse brace.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VILLIAM IIASLUP.

Witnesses:

D. OLDHAM, GEo. B. STERLINE. 

